///INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH:
FOR US EVEN THE WATCHMAN HAS TO BE A MASTER
JOHN DOE TELLS US ABOUT HIS MOST EXCLUSIVE
HOUSING ESTATE IN THE CAPITAL CITY....................................................28
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///ARCHITECTURE:
BLOCKS OF FLATS ARE PASSE!
NEW STANDARDS IN ARCHITECTURE FOR MASSES................................12
PARADISE NOW!
THE MOST EXCITING HOUSING ESTATES IN POLAND.............................16

///YOUR INTERIOR:
TAME THE SPACE
EMPTY DOES NOT MEAN COLD....................................................................22
HAVE A GOOD SLEEP
BEDROOM AS THE KEY TO PSYCHIC BALANCE.........................................35
JUST PAINT IT!
FURNITURE THAT PRETEND TO EXIST........................................................37
IN MIRROR IS THE TRUTH
BATHROOM WITH NO BOUNDARIES............................................................39
TIME TO CHILL
SWIMMING POOL IN A POSTMODERN HOUSE..........................................43
PLAY THE GAME
DOES THE SPACE WE LIVE IN AFFECTS OUR RELATIONS?....................47

Quick breakfast
Sandwich to go
Short Lunch
Family Dinner

MAKE IT PUBLIC
AWAY WITH INTIMACY, RELATIONS OVER ALL!.........................................55

///Regular Sections
SAFE AND SECURED................................................................................59
MY HOME IS MY CASTLE
REVIEWS OF THE NEWEST MONITORING SYSTEMS
THE GATE DOESN’T HAVE TO BE UGLY
PRESENTATIONS OF NEW IDEAS ON THE MARKET

DYI ADVICE.....................................................................................................63
HOW TO KEEP CONTROL ON THE OVERHAUL GANG

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give
uss
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it
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Aleksandra Rychlicka – screenwriter,
poet and jurnalist. Educated in University
College Utrecht (major in philosophy,
literature and journalism) and Kraków
School of Film and Communication,
recipient of 2-year Hygens Scholarship
awarded by the Dutch Minister of
Education to outstanding international
research students, Aleksandra was
working for several magazines and creative
agencies. Actually she makes Mphil/
PhD in School of Eastern European and
Slavonic Studies at the University College
London preparing the research project on
the identity of Polish people through the
eyes of young Polish artists.

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... one of the main characters becomes a synonym of an involved viewer, or even the
director himself, whose story got out of control and went in a completely unexpected
enre, is
direction. The psychological drama, effortlessly playing with the thriller genre,
set in an empty and sterile landscape of a guarded community estate.
The film is full of cool, long and often still framess that
phere
emphasize the emptiness and the nightmarish atmosphere
ey are
of the place where the film is set. Additionally, they
interspersed with the takes from the CCTV camerass that
spy on the unaware characters. The medium itself often
takes over the story - when the camera begins to tell a
completely different tale, as if it wanted to look away with
ance
embarrassment and, at the same time exposes surveillance
to us. This film is like Battle Royale, has it been madee by
d the
Michael Haneke, turning the jungle into concrete and
he
blood into lust. It seems the director wanted to vivisectt th
the
o fill
society, who no longer has its own dreams and has to
this void, trying to dream the dreams and desires of the
people they spy on. Still, why being so pessimistic? I do nott
think our readers share this vision of the world. Myself, in
any case, I am far from it. Do not recommend.

/ / / Ja ce k N ag ł owski

04

Ja k N
Jacek
Nagłowski
ł
– filmmaker,
initiator and co-founder of Film
1,2 association. Awarded twice
by the Minister of Culture. In
2004 together with Agnieszka
Janowska
he
co-found
Centrala. He deals with human
interiors since 1998, when he
started studying philosophy at
the Jagiellonian University. He
continued later on directing
two films (one fiction and
one documentary) having
emptiness as the subject. Since
the beginning his main goal
was breaking through the walls
of appearance, just to learn that
there is another wall behind it,
and another behind that one,
and another, and another...

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Design
gn Your Interior

Design Your Interior

SEDUCTION
d
Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Brian Singer
Seduction is Jean Baudrillard’s
rd’s most
provocative book. Here, under
nder the
sign of seduction all modern theory is
put into question. Seduction speaks of
the sudden reversibility in the
he order
of things where discourse is absorbed
into its own signs without a trace of
meaning. In the sudden triumph
umph of
seduction in apocalyptic culture
ure there
is also signaled the end of history.
istory. As
Baudrillard says, “Nothing can be greater
than seduction itself, not even the order
that destroys it.” Seduction is a theoryfiction which resembles nothing
ng which
has preceded it. It turns contemporary
emporary
discourses inside out, even the most
radical, and could very well challenge
allenge all
modem theory, even indeed, the
he rules of
theoretical production itself. Both the
despair and the airy certainty reflect, in
part, the enormous recent infl
uence of
fluence
the French theorist and philosopher.
opher. For
Baudrillard, is not seduction a new figure
of our freedom?

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